The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-03-05
HERE AND THERE.


now being sunk near St. Augustine, Fla.
Two million gallons of wine yet remain In
the Anahem, CAL cellars awaiting shipment.
A new variety of apple pie has hole cut
out OF the center, which is filled In with jelly.
The first snow Of the season fell at Tacoma
Washington territory, week ago Sunday.
Thirteen wild turkeys were caught in one
pen in Upshur county, w. Va, few days
ago.
Philadelphia has 720 licensed push-carts
which supply everything in the hucksters'
line
A frost in San Pedro dc las Colchas, Next
co, is said to have destroyed $1,000 pounds OF
cotton.
In Englewall, n. H.. live eight pensioners
OF the war OF the rebellion who are each over
% years old.
Daniel Speaker, OF Fonda, n Y, is the OLD
est bank president In the United States. He
Is 30 wears old.
w. p. Moody, Of Cumberland, n. s., aged
l06 years, recently recovered from serious
attack OF illness.
Seven years ago fire broke out in deep
mine near Virginia City, New, and 1t has been
burning ever since.
Near Atwater, O., farmer gathered, last
season, lob bushels OF corn from less than
eight acres Of land.
Mrs. Carroll, OF Macon Ga, has had charge
Of the railroad switch at that place for the
pust twenty-five years.
A Buffalo, N. Y, newspaper proprietor pre-
sented pair Of mittens on Christmas day 70
each of his newsboys.
The 100000 high school at Syracuse, N. T.,
has been condemned by the board OF health on
account OF defective plumbing.
Paper toboggans are said to be great deal
more useful than other toboggans, as they are
lighter and run easier and faster
An Arizona Judge has decided that peace
officers have no right to carry concealed weap-
pns any more than private citizens.
Two White mountain hotels have been open
cd for toboggan parties who want chutes
surprising all manufactured affairs.
II is said that in the vicinity Of Bowling
Green, Ky., there is enough iron to supply
City furnaces for two hundred years.
A merchant at San Diego, Cal, recently 70
ceiyed an order from an interior village Tor Q
bible, bowieknifc, and pack OF cards.
The battle of Princeton is to be commemo
rated by the erection of a magnificent monu
uent on the spot where Gen. Mercer fell
II Is estimated that all Of n hundred add
tional monuments will be erected ON the bat
sle- field of Gettysburg during the coming
year.
A locomotive used as switch'englne al
Bellows Falls, VT, is said to be the Oldest 10
this country, having first been used July %
lS49.
Members of the base-ba club OF Rochester,
n. Y, are already in training for the summer
games. They are practicing in RINK now
ever.
Massachusetts, stands second on the list oil
contributors to the Charleston fund. Inc hrs'
Mace. In honor, belongs TO the factory girls OF
Lowell
II is said that person can live cheaper, ano
at the same time more arisiocratlcaily' I'D
Geneva, Switzerland, than In any other city ID
the world.
Five Brooklyn policemen, who sued the city
q recover money taken from their salaries
while ,hey we're sick and of duty, obtained
Judgment in the city court Monday.
For over century the wealthy planters OF
MARYLAND lived in ignorance OF the delicious
ness of terripin, and only their slaves ate
them. Now they are glad to get them al d
cents plate.
A Young man crossed the Hudson river Old
the ice at RhineclfI, y. Y, ON thursday,
mounted on stills, accomplishing the enure
distance nearly two miles without fall, ano
thereby winning wager
I'm the California penitentiary there are 'we
verv old murdcrers. One Is George Jones
og,d 80 wears. who killed Lorenz Dutil, anc
tbe other is n. b. Sutton, aged 10 years, tho
murdersc of Alexander Martin.
II cost Brooklyn association, formed loi
the purpose, s., 900 last year to start the
movement for bringing about hall'holiuay
IN that city. One mass meeting alone tooh
ssj4 out of the society's treasury
The candied sweet potato is Philadelphia
confec,ionery. It Is nothing but sweet pota
,oes carefully boiled and quarlered ana thep
canded In boiling syrup but II Is sa'u 10 o'
dainty and tender and Of delicious flavor
A,ounr daughter Of Nebraska's senior SEN
otor Is named Happy New Year Van Wyck' q
clerk in one Of the departments at Washing
ton Return Jonathan Meigs, and prominent
undertaken at Reno, New, Coffin {. Bier.
An effort is being made to have the capital
NJ Arizona moved from Prescott to Ph@nM
Prescott. once the mos. populous and thriiy
town in the territory, has deterorRed &c
hat /, Is a little more than country village
A .men's tea' is the latest novelty In en-
,ort.iu,nents at Philadelphia, Pa. The ner